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vein 1 ; a hlaokish lilotoh on subcostal vein above reniform ; orbicnlar a small 

 black dot; reniform brownish oclireous, marked with black spots as in modesta; 

 median shade thick, twice incnrved below the median vein ; enter line oblique 

 outwards and sharply angled on vein 4, then obliiiiie inwards, twice incnrved 

 below vein 2 and aiigleil outwards on vein 1 ; beyond it a thick black obliijae shade 

 from costa, followed by a i)atch of white scales on costa ; submarginal line pale, 

 preceded by a large black patch below vein C and again from 2 to inner margin ; 

 terminal area with black marks between the veins below (i ; a row of black 

 terminal s])<its : towards the termen tlie brown shows coppery I'nlvons reflections. 



Him/icing : slaty blackish ; the markings as in graniilntii. 



Underside slaty black ; a broad slaty blue band beyond outer black band and 

 the terminal area slaty blue with some dark shades ; an oblong slaty blue streak 

 before the black band bevoud cell in forewing and a series of them between the 

 veins in hindwing ; costa of forewing bright fulvous. 



Head and thorax rufous olive brown mixed with bluish scales; dorsum slaty 

 fnscons. 



In the ab. albimi-vta ab. nov. the median area of forewing along costa, the 

 cell and space beyond, and that below median vein beyond inner line, are all 

 marked with white scales. 



Expanse of wings: 85 mm. 



2 Si, ~ ? ? — one pair representing the type, the otlier the aberration — from 

 Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, ;i.5U0 ft., November 

 190S to January 1009. 



The wings are broader and sliorter than in gninulata Guen.,the hindwing more 

 rounded. 



113. Carteia subpallida spec. nov. 



Eesembles C. luteiceps Wlk., but smaller; the S darker, the ? paler; the 

 lines in the ? paler, rust-colour; the reniform stigma darker; the chief dilferences 

 are found on the underside ; this is ochreous instead of yellow, without black 

 speckling; the forewing with scarcely a trace of outer line, and the terminal 

 border of hindwing as broad and dark as of forewing in both sexes ; the ab. 

 deminuta ab. nov. is a small grey form with the reniform stigma ])rominentIy 

 black. 



Exj)anse of wings : S 30 mm. ; 28 mm. ; of deminuta 24 mm. 



A very large number from various localities in Hainan, including three 

 examples of the aberration. 



114. Carteia stigmatica spec nov. 



(J. Foreioing : fawn-colour; the lines dark brown and straight; the inner 

 vertical and thick ; the outer, beyond one-third, finer, followed, after a narrow pale 

 interval, by a thick brown slightly curved line with a faint brownish dentate-edged 

 shaile beyond it ; space between inner and outer lines suffused more or less with 

 brownish ; reniform stigma large, pale green edged with brown ; a faint row of 

 dark dots before termen ; fringe paler. 



llindirinq : fuscous ochreous or fuscous grey, with a broad blackish terminal 

 border preceded by a dark outer line ; fringe rufous. 



?. Foretping: much paler; tlie lines thinner; the slender outer line hardly 

 marked ; the reniform smaller. 



